Motivational Quotes

Opportunity

Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

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Best Quotes about Opportunity

Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me.

Guthrie, Woody

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Steichen, Edward

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.

Forbes, B. C.

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Colton, Charles Caleb

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Proverb, Cuban

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

Koch, Sally

10.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Cromwell, Oliver

11.

Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

12.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Wideman, John Edgar

13.

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Horace

14.

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Collier, Robert

15.

Little opportunities should be improved.

FeNelon, Francois

16.

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

Crane, George W.

17.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Krishna, Rama

18.

The back of one door is the face of another.

Proverb

19.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Marden, Orison Swett

20.

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Syrus, Publilius

21.

Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Hill, Napoleon

22.

To recognize an opportunity and use it is the difference between success and failure.

23.

When fortune knocks open the door.

Proverb, German

24.

When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity o start all over again, to turn over a new page.

Caddy, Eileen

25.

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Lehmann, Rosamond

26.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

Proverb, English

27.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Smiles, Samuel

28.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

30.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Patty Hansen

31.

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

32.

Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

33.

Opportunity creates desire.

Proverb, Dutch

34.

Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad.

Proverb, Greek

35.

Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm -- it was gone.

36.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Peters, Thomas J.

37.

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer, Maria Rilke

38.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Edison, Thomas A.

39.

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Conwell, Russel H.

40.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

Barton, Bruce

41.

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Sharp, Tom

42.

Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Coolidge, Rita

43.

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

44.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word'crisis.'One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John F. Kennedy

45.

Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

L'Amour, Louis

46.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Iacocca, Lee

47.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Schucman, Helen

48.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Meir, Golda

49.

Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening -- she makes one.

Kirkpatrick, Kirk

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This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Capone, Al